Yingluck lauds Malala's courage

“As a woman I would like to express my gratitude for Malala’s courage and determination. She fought for women’s rights even though this almost cost her life,” she posted on Facebook.
Today, everywhere in the world women still face gender inequality in many areas, including education, and women are still the victims of violence and torture, she said.
This Nobel Peace Prize will be an encouragement to the world to realise that there still are many people who see the importance of education and equality problems, she said.
Malala, the youngest education advocate, shared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian children’s-rights activist.
In October 2012, Malala was shot in the head when militants boarded her school bus in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley and opened fire, wounding two of her schoolmates in the process. Despite this, she still advocated for people’s rights.